It’s a colourful word!
From an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
December 26th, 2019
Category: Chrono
When in Harlem…
The Greater Refuge Temple, ex-movie theatre, ex-Harlem Casino, re-designed by Architect Costas Machlouzarides in 1966, when it received this extraordinary façade 
No introduction necessary 
Morningside Park, overlooking Harlem
December 22nd, 2019
Sun Rise Moon Set
Hell’s Kitchen
December 12th, 2019
Art to lift the spirits
I think we can all use a booster
Frank Lloyd Wright || The San Francisco Building. Project, 1913 
Frances Stark || Chorus Line, 2008. Cut-and-pasted printed and coloured papers on paper 
Daniel Grataloup || Urban Proposal with Multi Thin-Shell Capsules. Project, 1974 
Sonja Sekula || The Town of the Poor, 1951. Oil on canvas 
Florine Stettheimer || Procession: Zizim of Persia, Agnes of Bourganeuf, the Unicorn, and Pierre d’Aubusson. Costume design for artist’s ballet Orphée of the Quat-z-arts, c. 1912 
Florine Stettheimer || Family Portrait II, 1933. Oil on canvas 
Florine Stettheimer || Portrait of My Mother, 1925. Oil on canvas 
Hilma af Klint || The Dove No. 2, Series UW, Group IX, 1925. Oil on canvas 
Metastadt-Planungsgesellschaft, est. 1969
Richard Dietrich – Bernd Steigerwald
Metastadt-Bausystem (Metacity Building System), 1965-72
MoMA New York
December 8th, 2019
Sunday afternoon museum walk
The new MoMA had recently reopened after a four month closure, the last phase of a multimillion dollar expansion and renovation, and it was high time we explored all that extra space. These are a few of my favourite things:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe || Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper, Berlin – Project, 1921
Charcoal and graphite on paper mounted on board
Heinz Schulz-Neudamm || Poster for the film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang 1926 – Lithograph 
Film stills from Metropolis, 1927 
Film still from Metropolis, 1927 
Film still from Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 – gelatin silver print 
Film still from Frankenstein, 1931 – gelatin silver print 
Film stills from Der Golem, 1920 – gelatin silver prints 
Egon Schiele || Portrait of Gerti Schiele, 1909. Oil, silver, gold-bronze paint, and pencil on canvas 
Pablo Picasso || Boy Leading a Horse, 1905-06. Oil on canvas 
Pablo Picasso || Woman Plaiting Her Hair, 1906. Oil on canvas 
Edvard Munch || Man’s Head in Woman’s Hair, 1896. Woodcut 
Julia Margaret Cameron || Mrs. Duckworth, 1867. Albumen silver print 
Alfred Stieglitz || A Dirigible, 1910. Photogravure
MoMA New York
December 8th, 2019
Akhnaten || Philip Glass
“Practically from the moment [that I first learned about Akhnaten] … I knew I had found the subject for my third opera,” Glass recalls in his 1987 autobiography. After the genre-busting success of Einstein on the Beach (1976) and Satyagraha (1980), Akhnaten rounded out what would come to be known as the composer’s Portrait Trilogy, a triptych of operas focused on innovators from across disciplines. “Akhnaten completed the trilogy in many satisfying ways.”. “If Einstein epitomized the man of Science and Gandhi the man of Politics, then Akhnaten would be the man of Religion.”
– Philip Glass
After Einstein on the Beach, Glass’ epic five-hour masterpiece and the best excuse for a trip to Amsterdam back in 2013, it was such a privilege to watch the third part of the trilogy, at the Metropolitan Opera no less.
Now, if only we could catch Satyagraha sometime, someplace…
The Metropolitan Opera
December 7th, 2019
Globalisation
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
November 30th, 2019
Warehouse Comics
Out there in Sunset Park, not far from the Industry City complex, among auto parts, plumping equipment, building products, and wholesalers we discovered this: a warehouse packed with comics, paperbacks, magazines, action figures – the lot! Easy to mistake it for yet another hardware equipment warehouse, had it not been for the two feline guides, we would have totally missed it.
November 30th, 2019
Yayoi Kusama || Everyday I Pray For Love
An exhibition introducing new works from the artist’s ”My Eternal Soul” series.
November 29th, 2019
Yayoi Kusama || Ladder To Heaven
Stretching to infinity with the help of two mirrors – one on the ceiling, another on the floor – and colour changing LED lights. I’m not sure about the ”heaven” part, the effect is more like ”as above so below”, with worshippers debating on which direction is better to take.
From ”Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE”, an exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, 2019
November 29th, 2019
The Humble Fabulist 